Rota Co-Ordinator - Women & Children's

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly organised Rota Co-ordinator to support medical staffing across Obstetrics & Gynecology and Paediatrics & Neonatal. You will coordinate rotas, manage leave and locum cover, and support trainee doctors to meet educational requirements.

The role requires strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to work independently in a dynamic NHS environment and to adapt to service demands.

Qualifications

• Experience in administrative roles, preferably in healthcare or medical staffing.
• Experience coordinating rotas and covering leave/absence.
• Ability to manage on-call rotas and allocate staff to theatres and clinics.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and maintain medical rotas across Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Paediatrics & Neonatal.
• Manage leave, absence, and locum arrangements to ensure safe staffing.
• Schedule staff to wards, clinics, theatres, and elective lists.
• Support trainees to meet educational and training requirements.
• Provide day-to-day admin duties and monitor annual and study leave.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Independent working

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Women & Children's Division for a highly organised and motivated Rota Co-ordinator to support the management of medical staffing across two rota areas: Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Paediatrics & Neonatal.

Working closely with resident doctors, consultants and management teams, the post holder will be responsible for coordinating and maintaining medical rotas, ensuring safe staffing levels, managing leave and absence, arranging locum cover, and supporting trainee doctors to meet their educational and training requirements.

This is a busy and rewarding role requiring excellent organisational, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and respond effectively to changing service demands. The successful candidate will build strong working relationships across multidisciplinary teams and play a key role in supporting the delivery of high-quality patient care.

This is a fixed-term position for 12 months and presents an excellent opportunity for an individual with administrative experience, ideally within a healthcare or medical staffing environment, to develop their skills within a supportive and dynamic team. The Rota Co-ordinator will lead and co-ordinate medical rotas, whilst working in a supportive environment. The role has been developed to improve and support the working lives of our clinical teams with respect to the following:

• Management of on-call clinical rota
• Management of rota to ensure resident doctors in training attend education events to meet training requirements.
• Allocation of doctors on wards, in clinics, theatres and elective caesarean section lists.
• Allocating medical staff to additional theatre lists and clinics as required

To work independently utilising own skills and initiative without the need for supervision, in an organised, efficient and effective manner to maximise use of own time. Post holder is expected to be flexible in their approach to meet the needs of the service.

Work areas will include:

Providing day-to-day administrative duties aligned with the role including the monitoring of annual and study leave, sickness absence and timely meetings with educational supervisors.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM). They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation

Our mission is to be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision is to be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our approach to healthcare is founded on our four core values:

Kind - we are caring, supporting and respectful to everyone

Open - we are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working

Fair - we listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all

One team - we work well together and with our communities

We employ almost 6,500 people from more than 80 nationalities and are fully committed to being an equal, diverse and inclusive employer. Our culture and values ensure that everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and that no job applicant or employee is disadvantaged at any stage of their journey.

We are also proud to be an Armed Forces Friendly organisation and welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists and families.

Working at NCM means becoming part of a dedicated team of clinical and support staff who are passionate about keeping people well and supporting wellbeing. If you share our values and are motivated by making a difference for our patients, we'd be delighted to receive your application